-Advocated suffrage as a necessary check on the elite and proportional representation as a means of protecting minorities
-Mill favored a more open administration, organized interest groups, and workers’ cooperatives
-Distinguished between production (to which liberal economics applied and distribution (which the state might intervene on the behalf of justice)
-Companion: Harriet Taylor Mill who advocated causes such as the emancipation of women and the confiscation of excess profit
-Mill’s essay On Liberty (1859) was an important work of political theory
-Declaration that society can have no higher interest than the freedom of each of its members